San Diego County's new Pollution Crisis Chief aims to unify efforts against the prolonged Tijuana River sewage crisis, promising urgent and coordinated action.

IMPERIAL BEACH (FOX 5/KUSI) — Lifeguards in Imperial Beach are facing worsening conditions as low pay, pollution and poor morale continue to plague the city’s beaches, a crisis that some say is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paula Stigler Granados and Angel Granados, both San Diego State professors, wear respirators while standing near the Tijuana River ...

Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, Thursday visited Imperial Beach to see the Tijuana River sewage pollution crisis and demand stronger federal action to address the issue. Booker was invited to South ...

County Supervisor Paloma Aguirre near Saturn Boulevard and a section of the Tijuana River on Nov. 21, 2025. (Photo by Adriana Heldiz/ CalMatters) This story was originally published by CalMatters.

Imperial Beach, a small, but resilient city confronting a decades-long environmental crisis, is losing its first-term mayor and its strongest voice in the fight against the Tijuana River sewage crisis ...

Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre, joined by South County community members, will call out the San Diego County government Wednesday for moving forward with a budget that “grossly underfunds sewage ...

Baron Partlow, an Imperial Beach, Calif., resident and founder of a group called Stop the Poop speaks to reporters about a lawsuit filed to stop rampant pollution in the Tijuana River, which flows ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Hours after a November storm, the Tijuana River flooded a grove of trees in Imperial Beach, gushed through a row of ...

For decades, locals have known that the Tijuana River at the US-Mexico border is polluted with unhealthy levels of sewage, industrial waste, and runoff. Millions of gallons of contaminated water flow ...

California’s long coastline might be known for its beautiful and dramatic beaches, but one of them is a bacteria hot spot—and a threat to public health. The nonprofit environmental organization, the ...

Hours after a November storm, the Tijuana River flooded a grove of trees in Imperial Beach, gushed through a row of calverts and exploded into mounds of fetid foam. This is ground zero for the ...